Comments on: Mad Men Recap: Of Vice and Menhttp://tvline.com/2013/06/09/mad-men-season-6-recap-sally-catches-don-sylvia-sex/
TV News, Previews, Spoilers, Casting Scoop, InterviewsMon, 19 Mar 2018 14:24:08 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Melissahttp://tvline.com/2013/06/09/mad-men-season-6-recap-sally-catches-don-sylvia-sex/#comment-list-wrapper
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 21:48:43 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1174524Not an iphone. A radio of some sort. not sure about the existence of earphones that small at the time, but otherwise, no continuity problem. Absolutely *not* an iphone or iPod
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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:26:48 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1114082Continuity Director screwed up that one. I can’t believe you caught. Well done.
]]>By: Jenniferhttp://tvline.com/2013/06/09/mad-men-season-6-recap-sally-catches-don-sylvia-sex/#comment-list-wrapper
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:19:25 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1114074Betty will be livid that she can’t continue in her delusion of a world. If Sally knows Don is a schmuck then in Betty’s thinking, Betty isn’t as fantastic bc Don isn’t a suave god, he is just a Dick.

Betty gets her self esteem from others perception of her. Don’t try and mess with that.

If Betty learned of Don’s recent activities, betty would be angry but quickly suppress it. And she certainly would not dare mention it.

But, if Sally knows that Don is a dick She can’t deny it . Reality comes crashing in.

Betty divorced the guy after learning about Dick. But she has chosen to continue to pretend he is Don. This isn’t out of kindness it is to protect Betty and her world.

The really sad part is that Betty kind of believes her denial land world. She is pretty invested in it. She just slept with Don herself and her fragile newly slimmed down self got off on Don wanting her. Not Dick sticking her thing in anything that moves.

Betty will be livid. And if Betty is anything like my mom, when you do anything to threaten that fictitious world she loves in – that she protects so fervently – she will be livid with the messenger, Sally.

It isn’t rationale but neither is denial land. Sally can’t stay as that would Betty’s world would come crashing down. Sally would insist upon reality and that isn’t goings to happen. On my experience, Sally is excommunicated from the family by Betty. Whether it is boarding school, a semester abroad or a horrific argument such that Sally runs off to hang with her Juilliard friend on the streets of the city… Sally can’t tell her mother the truth about what she saw and remain under her mother’s roof.

Betty won’t let that happen.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:19:42 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1113707Why would Insecure Betty care about her daughter walks in on her father having an affair? It’s one thing if Betty caught him but far worse of Sally does because Betty can’t pretend it didn’t happen – in her own mind or with Sally.

Betty’s fragile self esteem was recently boosted by sleeping w her ex-husband, Sir Don, the man she has fawned over and propped up in her own mind her whole adult life and even after they split. Thus the devastation learning Don was not Don but just some loser named Dick. One thing to be cheated kn bu the great Don Draper, quite another to realize she wasnt good enough (Betty’s thinking) for some dude named Dick. She coudl handle the cheating by Don but not by Dick.

And so when she slept with Don at bonny’s camp, She got to tell herself that she was still desirable and special. Deep down, Betty knows better but she has always been willing to pretend Don was less horrible than he was.

Recall the scene where Betty and new hubbie are at dinner In the city and Betty sees Don with a (younger attractove) date for the first time. Betty flips and has to excuse herself at dinner – a couples business dinner – Emilyvpost would not have approved and Betty knows this. But even after returning to the table she couldn’t help staring over at Don and his date snd was rude theoughout dinner so much so that she was later chastised on the way home by new hubby for being inexplicably rude.

Betty is fragile. She went into a self destructive tail spin and gained extraordinary wait – devastating for the princess model token trophy wife of 1960s Connectectict.

Betty knows Don sleeps around but she has always preferred to live in denial land. At least on the surface she lives there and like so many people on this show, internally she is conflicted but has been scafed to even open that door for feat of what is on the other side. Inside of Betty. Betty decided to live in that comfortable land of denial and outward appearances when it comes to her feelings about herself and her family. It is all perfect.

For Betty, learning that Sally saw her father cavorting with yet another woman will be devastating. She can’t hide that or pretend it didn’t happen. Sally knows and Sally won’t love in Betty’s beloved denial land. An ongoing conflict for them. I am familiar with this and couldn’t handle my mother’s fictitious pink and purple polka dotted sky of a world. Which really incensed my mother. It is a major problem when you base your life and well being on illusions and someone (Dick, Sally) point out they might not be real.

Betty will be pissed. And if Betty handles it like my own mother did, Sally will be dismissed from Betty’s life. Boarding school, a semester abroad, a fight such that it ends with Sally running off to join her talented Juilliard friend on the streets, something.

So long as she isn’t around to potentially throw stones at Betty’s fragile glass house – because it could put Betty in that horrible position of being forced to deal with reality.

Not gonna happen.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:06:25 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1111574Ha! Good catch (iphone).
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:28:50 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1111337Yes! This seems so obvious to me (and I replied to a comment above saying such, so sorry for doubling). I completely forgot that they had to give up the defence account in ?? S2?? and while I remembered that Pete knew, I forgot he pulled strings and was very involved. Until tonight’s episode, that is, where we were not so subtley reminded of that fact, and then OH the cute potential FBI agent is hitting on the horrid man who knows all the secrets and hates himself. No brainer to me.
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:21:30 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1111334As was alluded to in this episode, Pete knows all about Don’s secret. He knows more than probably anyone except Don and Anna Draper. So… Maybe that’s how Bob will get Don? (I’m into the Bob as a fed theory).
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:50:00 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1111235Cat, good point
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:15:01 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1111051Did anyone else notice that the doorman whose shift was over and who was changing in the lobby when sally came back to the apartment had what appears to be an ipod/iphone in his right hand and clearly has a white ear piece in his left ear? I thought this was 1968? Look for it its at minute 55.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:01:20 +0000http://tvline.com/?p=438741#comment-1109985yes, I too see the resemblance
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